A thread for the discussion of the Commonwealth, by members of the Commonwealth. Talk about politics, closer ties and ideas for what we can do as a group.
/cwg/ - Commonwealth General
Jace Hughes
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en.wikipedia.org
theguardian.com
telegraph.co.uk
express.co.uk
en.wikipedia.org
twitter.com
Isaiah James
Dumb thread for dumb people
Nathaniel Mitchell
Fuck the Commonwealth
Fuck the Queen
Owen Green
...
Brayden Martinez
DORKS
Tyler Peterson
political proposal: start the empire back up again and reconquer the 13 colonies for her majesty
Chase Gray
> Commonwealth general
> only Americans posting
Are you that desperate to return?
Dominic White
A little shame Canada is invited
But it keeps the Americans obsessed lol
Jason Clark
Moving to Canada soon, going to start a movement to bring back their true flag.
Jayden Lewis
Why is Mozambique part of the Commonwealth, Nige? Is it a Nando's thing?
We didn't steal any of your colon-
Christian Perry
Are you so desperate that you had to post an invite in a North American general
Kayden Hernandez
>two hundred plus years since """"independence""""
>still salty about the commonwealth
wew
Levi Gonzalez
How are things in New Zealand today?
Good lad. My wall of flags will be all the better for it.
It asked to, that's why. :)
Joshua Ortiz
>what is canada
Jordan Lewis
Celine Dion is great, eh?
Anyway, why don't we all just give Argentina the Falklands.
It would be nice.
Also, maple syrup, eh?
Logan Robinson
C-Can we join?
Samuel Ward
Good try, Paco.
Michael Parker
Did you just try to tax me without giving me proper parliamentary representation?
Colton Barnes
>what is attention whoring
Lucas Martin
Ryan Thompson
My granda was a kiwi, does that mean I can become kiwi citizen?
Isaac Cox
Brazil is a commonwealth nation since January 3rd 2017.
Tyler Morris
The national sport of America, I believe.
Sebastian Martin
I don't have the reverse image.
Levi Cook
pathetic response
shan't be replying any longer
Matthew Cox
Out of interest, do you prefer /lus/ or /iber/, if you browse either?
Christian Gomez
cringe
Julian Ramirez
I rarely frequent either. All generals suck.
Iber is more novel now, but it's just the same shit. Autismos and shitty unification threads and WE WUZ every other post. Boring.
Jaxon Turner
I dislike /brit/ a lot of the time, but I like talking to those with some unifying factor because stuff is simply less disjointed, so this seemed like a good idea.
Jack Nelson
Independence was a mistake
There are some perks of still being in the commonwealth so I guess that's a consolation
prize.
Landon Campbell
Why was independence a mistake? Is there any going back? What are St. Vincent's politics like today?
Grayson Lopez
Being an outsider on generals isn't that bad. Being one of the ""hosts"" or regulars is usually more boring. Namefags are the worst.
That said, there were a bunch of /luso/s with a Brazilian linguist who was pretty great. And once there was an Angolan, which was weird. /iber/ has higher lows, but lower highs.
The quieter and politer Brazilians are absolutely based and great to chat with, and there's a tighter kinship, but it's such a huge country that they came rather far between.
Adam Miller
What does /luso/ actually mean? I had always assumed it was a Brazil general until I saw Portugal stuff in there.
Kayden Perry
Lusitania was the old Roman name for Western Iberia (roughly what became Portugal below Porto).
We use Luso- as our prefix, much like Anglo-, so it describes anything pertaining to Portugal or the Portuguese language. Think Nipo- for Japan or Sino- for China.
So /luso/ is for all former and current Portuguese territories.
It was popularized when our patron Poet (Luís Vaz de Camões) wrote an epic (similar to the Iliad and the Odyssey) and called it the Lusíads in 1578.
Ian Bennett
>Why was independence a mistake?
There was no actual benefit to it, I think we just asked for it because it was trendy at the time
nothing really changed
>Still have constitutional monarchy
>still use mostly British systems
>Hell, we only stopped using Cambridge A-level exams like 2 years ago
>All Islands still under British rule function autonomously
>uni costs 4X more
That last one is purely for me
>Is there any going back?
Nope, unless something fucked up happened like in Montserrat
>What are St. Vincent's politics like today?
Mostly the same as everywhere
>Two massive parties shit flinging everywhere
Juan Richardson
Please give us Turks and Caicos also Canada doesn't deserve it, Geographically they are apart of us.
Isaiah Martin
Maybe if you are good.
Why couldn't you return if there's no point to independence?
Nolan Parker
They don't want to be associated with you
Alexander Thomas
You can be with them...
Connor Howard
They still are in the CPLP, though.
But they do drive on the correct side of the road, unlike us. We've gotten cucked for being continental.
Jason Robinson
>Maine
Connor Garcia
>Why couldn't you return if there's no point to independence?
Most people here would see it as "Going back to Massa"
so that sentiment immediately stops any hope of that.
Nicholas Richardson
If you got Overseas Territories status, you'd have as much autonomy as the Falklands, but extra protections and aid.
Lucas Sanders
whats this
Grayson Stewart
Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa/Community of Portuguese Language Countries
Former colonies/countries with significant Portuguese population and/or influence.
Don't know why Turkey or Australia are there, though.
Leo Jenkins
>we were almost apart of Canada
I did not know this
We are good and next year our Gdp should be higher than ever
Asher Collins
Maybe then. What are attitudes towards the British like over there?
Gabriel Morales
commonwealth of pennsylvania reporting in
Ethan Ortiz
Not even that would appease them
Then again I don't see why the english would want these islands back
Dominic Martin
Nor me, besides status. Tourism income is all that I can think of.
Grayson Sanders
an irrelevant thread for an irrelevant body
Julian Barnes
Irrelevant for not much longer, dear Bogan.
Adrian Brooks
England became even less relevant to Australia after brexit. Close ties with you literally serves no benefit
Christopher Cruz
Landon Robinson
>Tony Abbott
A pom that has no power whatsoever anymore and got replaced with a republican
>telegraph.co.uk
purely sentimental bullshit without a scrape of economic or political grounding to support the argument
Logan Lopez
express.co.uk
There's obviously support for it.
Grayson Green
hello lads
Ian Bell
and that will be the extent of it if anything
this CANZUK meme is never going to happen
Australia hasn't given a fuck about England since the second world war since it's no longer a nation that is strong enough to safeguard Australian interests.
The Australian High Commissioner is purely a ceremonial role given to retirees too. They don't do anything and no one listens to them.
Adam Murphy
How are things for you?
There will be a trade deal and stronger ties. I'm in favour of CANZUK as a group of countries closely linked, 100%.
Anthony Smith
>le cringed xD
Fuck off back to YouTube and or Reddit
Kayden Ward
>What are attitudes towards the British like over there?
I guess positive, topic never really comes up though.
Levi Price
this
cringe is the worst normie meme since "dab"
Ian Cooper
you may be but the Australian government will NOT.
I don't care what kind of restoration of the commonwealth meme was fed to you before brexit, but the sentiment isn't shared by the Australian government or people. Chances are the country will be a republic within 20 years too.
Ian Hill
>Chances are the country will be a republic within 20 years too.
wtf Australia get your shit together
Kevin Young
These organizations are always complete memes.
Mason Jackson
support for the monarchy here has been nosediving for the last decade, it's almost at 30% and will continue to drop as the Ten Pound Poms die off
Aiden Cruz
UK is extremely important to Australia, the majority of our skilled people imports are from the UK
Lincoln Price
> UK is extremely important to Australia
"no"
Migration will continue regardless of the strength of political ties. It didn't change when Australia moved away from England towards America and it won't change because Australia won't enter into an autistic attempt to revive the British Empire.
By your logic, Italy, Greece and Lebanon are also "extremely important" to Australia. Chinese and Indian migrants also outweigh English migrants these days.
Jordan Morris
In what dreamland is India a commonwealth country?
Jason Allen
the one where India was part of the British Empire for almost a century
Anthony Wilson
Like you did with the blacks for almost 100 fucking years after independence lmao
Bentley Martin
>american education
en.wikipedia.org
you may be confusing it with the commonwealth realms